On Monday 13 March 2006 05:53, Roy Wright wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great
> >euse tool) euse -D <useflag>.  Or, for those type A personalities out
> >there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use.
>
> Another tool is ufed (use flag editor).  Nicely combines flag name, set
> state, and
> brief description.
>
>  From this thread, I realized I hadn't ever reviewed my use flags, just
> added ones
> as needed for the past 1.5 years.  So added the -* to start with.  A few
> surprises
> like tetek.  Found a half dozen deprecated flags.  Then using ufed I
> discovered
> several new flags to try.
>
> This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use
> flags.  I'd like
> to know:
>
> * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have
> installed. * Which use flags are deprecated.
> * Which use flags are new.
>
> Ideally I'd just add this to my daily.cron job.
>
> Thank you,
> Roy
Instead of ufed I'd recommend profuse, it has the same options as ufed and 
more. Really a great tool, very easy to use and gives you a clear list of 
what use flags you have enabled (I do prefer the ncurses "profuse -n" command 
above gtk)

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Rick van Hattem	Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl